Continue to let the priests buff the Northumbrian infantry?
No! The Viking warriors had remained standing long enough to prevent the enemy from delaying the start of the battle by performing some pre-battle ritual.
Standing on a high ground, Rurik ordered all the torsion slingshot operators: "Maximum range! Look at my flag!"
He looked down at the matrix of bull trebuchets that had been deployed. : "Press the lever to the lowest position and install the stone! Look at the flag!"
Seeing that they were all ready, Rurik ordered the flag bearer to slam forward and press down the white-blue-striped Ross flag.
With this probability of shooting, the torsion slingshot and trebuchet reach their maximum range. Cast iron bullets and stone bullets are ejected ferociously, especially the trebuchet. Its powerful back jump is like a bull kicking someone.
The projectiles smashed through silently, just as the enemy was within the maximum range.
Three hundred meters between the two armies was already a very long distance. Eynred could not imagine whether there could be any kind of arrow that could fly such a long distance.
Indeed, what flew over was not an arrow, but a stone and an iron bullet!
The deadly stones fell from the sky and directly hit the lined-up soldiers, causing tragic death on the spot.
Although most of the eight casualties caused by this round of shooting in the Northumbria Military District were missed, it still caused a terrifying psychological shock to them.
Eynred's view of war has been rewritten, and a place that was supposed to be absolutely safe is now full of dangers.
He suddenly thought of escaping, but now the team began to commotion. Even the elite infantry soldiers were shocked when faced with the sudden tragic death of their comrades.
The most fearful thing for a soldier is the unexplained death of his comrades around him. Because of empathy, a soldier who has been trained in professional fighting is faced with a sudden and unnecessary death. Who can guarantee that he will not be next? Unlucky guy?
While the Northumbrian army was in chaos, a pile of stones came over. This time there were only three casualties, but farmers were already starting to escape.
Eynred was furious, and he finally gave the order: "Fighters of Northumbria! Attack! Kill the enemy!"
Staying here means just waiting to be killed. After receiving the order to attack, the elite kingdom warriors with kite shields no longer bothered to accept the blessing of holy water and began to attack in an unstructured way. The farmers who followed were carrying scythes, dung forks, and even iron flails for threshing, and followed the infantry with roars.
Because those who tried to escape had been overtaken by the cavalry who had received the king's order, and the cavalry's arrows killed them. Those humble farmers knew that their retreat had been cut off by the king, and they could not complain about why the noble king and the noble cavalry were spectators. In order to survive, they could only follow the infantry and roar like mountains and tsunamis to shake up the momentum. Join the fight.
As for the Vikings, there is no need for Rurik himself to shout at the top of his lungs for what happens next.
Rurik stands to place all the torqueOn the high platform of the slingshot, he arched his back slightly and stretched out his right hand to signal the Shetland man behind him holding a bow to throw an arrow into the sky.
The wooden bows of the entire team were hit by the Shetlanders in this battle. They could not participate in the frontal fighting but wounded people by shooting arrows. Many Balmok warriors on the front line did not feel that their allies were very important. glory.
However, Balmok's soldiers had no time to care about those people. Their sharp eyes were pressed against the edges of their bucklers, and the sword-holding hands were trembling subconsciously.
The people holding crossbows, including Biyongni, were half-kneeling at the spear formation of the Chinese army. He temporarily transformed into an infantryman and obeyed Jevlo's orders to shoot arrows.
"Hold on! Don't be nervous!"
"Get them close before shooting."
"Aim for their necks, their faces! Shoot them blind Their eyes!"
Jevro shouted rhythmically, and the soldiers around him were speechless. This situation even moved him very much, as if the fisherman standing behind him was not Balmok. They are the Novgorod spearmen who performed superbly in the decisive battle on Gotland last year.
The arrows thrown by the short wooden bow began to show their power. The arrows did not cause an overwhelming rain of arrows, but they did cause casualties to the charging enemies.
Torsion slingshots and trebuchets have caused death to the enemy.
The minds of the charging infantry of Northumbria have gone blank, and any insignificant warrior is swept away by the torrent. Fear? It doesn't matter anymore.
The companion beside him suddenly fell to the ground for unknown reasons. He might have been shot by arrows or stoned to death.
Any long-range weapon can prevent the crowd from attacking, and a close-quarters fight is about to happen.
"Now! Shoot!" Yevluo seized the opportunity, and a dozen people suddenly fired crossbows.
At least eight enemies were fatally struck in an instant, while Yevluo and others hurriedly picked up their crossbows and rushed back to the spear formation. He still shouted with all his strength: "Brothers, follow me to the highlands."
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As more than a dozen of them left, the collision between the infantry began.
The composition of every Viking shield wall is that the warrior protects almost the entire torso with the shield, with the left leg in front and the right leg behind in an anti-collision posture, and the sword and ax rest naturally on the shield. Waiting for an opportunity to poke.
The combination of shield and iron helmet made the Vikings' line strong enough. The round shield collided with the opponent's kite shield, almost inevitably withstanding the opponent's collision.
Suddenly, the battlefield was filled with flesh and blood!
The Viking swords began to stab wildly, and the battle axes waved wantonly. Many Viking warriors huddled behind their shields, hacking and stabbing indiscriminately at locations roughly in front of them.
The Vikings in the back row also carried long-handled weapons, either stabbing or falling from the sky and smashing them.
“This doesn’t look like a flesh-and-blood fight, why does it sound like a group fight?” said the Highland resident.Rick's face was sullen. Since the occupation was completely within his own prediction, he was not nervous at all.
At this moment, Yevluo and his men all waited for the foundation of the earth and wood construction. Although its terrain is relatively cramped and the height is only about one meter, it is actually a strategic commanding height.
Jevro said nothing, and the strong mercenary immediately used his strong arms to forcefully wind the steel-arm crossbow. After they finished winding the strings, they immediately inserted arrows into the arrow trough and fired at random at the densely packed enemy lines.
Beside them, the Shetlanders were still firing arrows into the air desperately. They threw the captured arrows at a great angle and killed them with Northumbrian arrows. Northumbrian farmer.
The craziest battle took place in the center of the Viking army. The wall of spears built by Biyoni's men became an insurmountable barrier.
The armored infantry of Northumbria holding a kite shield could possibly use the shield to block the thrusts of multiple spears. However, facing two hundred spears, the warriors faced despair.
There are Northumbria's own spears mixed in here. Various styles of spearheads, even just sharpened wooden poles, can cause huge damage.
More than a dozen people successfully rushed to the front of the formation. They were aware of the situation. However, under the push of the soldiers from behind, their shields were poked and pushed aside, their bodies were smashed by spearheads, and their chains were broken. Armor has almost no effect.
It didn’t take long to tell whether the two sides were fighting. The Vikings also began to suffer losses. Some people were stabbed by the swords of the Northumbrian warriors and fell to the ground. The warriors behind took the injured brothers to the ground. After pulling away, immediately replenish the front line.
More and more casualties were pulled to the rear, but the Viking line remained rock solid.
A large number of Northumbrian corpses appeared at the front line, and the infantry could not break through the Viking line.
King Aynred was watching the battle from a distance. He imagined that his large number of infantry could use this advantage to overwhelm the enemy formation like a mudslide with just one charge.
However, the enemy's formation was stronger and stronger than imagined.
"Why? Why haven't you defeated the enemy yet?" He stood on the saddle, leaning his head and shouting in confusion.
The cavalry captain Aston was holding his breath. Seeing this anxious situation, he hoped to make a swift flank attack to overwhelm the enemy's formation. But he didn't want to remonstrate because the king had just told him to shut up.
King Aynred was still watching the anxious occupation. He squinted and saw that some farmers carrying wooden sticks were actually fleeing.
"Damn traitors! Why are you running away! Others are obviously fighting!"
"Do you want me to increase taxes so that you dare to return to the front line?!"
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Ernred was just yelling and cursing from behind, and his men really made no progress. These barbarians on the sea behaved like masters of land warfare, and were formidable enemies that were difficult to defeat.
This is indeed the case, because Rurik taught the Balmoks the method of "air-ground integrated strike" in this battle.
In the trebuchet matrix in the safe zone, each trebuchet only needs to charge a mere 30% of its power. It can hit the enemy by throwing the stone fifty or sixty meters away. As a result, its launch efficiency is extremely high.
The torque slingshot itself does not need to be fully charged. It can crush the skull of an enemy not far away by installing projectiles after half of the charge.
Northumbria's advantage of having more troops now became a disadvantage. They spontaneously wanted to outflank the Vikings' right wing (the left wing was the sea), only to find that the right wing was already prepared. Anyone who tried to outflank would be stabbed to death and driven away by Geiger's spearmen who were waiting.
Even the Vikings started to push back!
The Northumbrian army had very few bow-wielding warriors, so their bows naturally tried to hit heavy weapons at high altitudes first. Rurik was standing on the high ground. From his perspective, the enemy's arrows could not hurt him at all. On the contrary, the archers were brutally killed by Yevlo and others holding crossbows because they posed a real threat.
The Vikings on the front line have been suffering casualties, and in comparison, their opponents have suffered greater losses.
Our own casualties were completely within the acceptable range, and the battlefield situation was under Rurik's control. He just waited for his opponent to collapse due to the high casualties.
It’s just that the situation is a little strange.
"Strange thing! Shouldn't the ancient peasant team flee if they lose 5%? Are these guys really going to burn down the monastery for me and fight with me to the last drop of their blood?" Rurik Fan While muttering, he looked around and saw that there were clearly men wearing simple coarse cloths running away. Those people were clearly farmers.
The armed peasants' retreat has clearly occurred.
Hey! Are there any farmers who escaped and returned to the front line? !
Rurik quickly understood the situation.
It is the cavalry. The Northumbrian cavalry is being ordered to kill the fleeing people.
"You actually have a war team? Idiot, you have no cavalry, and you have never had a wall-mounted collision until now." Rurik himself was speechless to the enemy. He didn't know Northumbria. The king was watching the battle from the edge of the forest. He did not know that in order to preserve the strength of the cavalry, the king deliberately ordered the cavalry to serve as a supervisory team.
"Supervise the battle? I'll let you supervise the battle! If this continues, all your orange warriors will die, and the remaining farmers will be sheep to be slaughtered."
Rurik paid keen attention As for those soldiers whose main color is orange, these people have a stronger will to fight. As for those people dressed in various colors, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are just spectators holding wooden sticks and wandering around. The farmers were unable to help. If the farmers were forced to flee en masse, would the cavalry supervising the battle have to kill all their own people?
The cries of killing on the battlefield never stopped, and fifty Viking warriors were seriously injured or killed from the front lines to the rear.
The Balmok Vikings, this group of fishermen have developed strong bodies through daily fighting games, cutting wood and transporting rocks, but the lack of armor to protect and drive them suffered a disadvantage. At least the battle still maintains a relatively stable front. If the occupation becomesThousands of people were fighting and killing each other, and Rurik could not guarantee that the advantage of the Viking warriors remained.
The shield wall is not only a means for individuals in the team to save their lives, but also allows the entire team to form a fighting group. Compared to the beginning of the battle, the Viking shield wall has advanced ten steps. The dead bodies that were not pulled away behind him were all Northumbrian warriors who died tragically.
Suddenly, a sailor who was ordered to operate the trebuchet threw it onto the platform and shouted to Rurik: "Sir! The reserved pebble pellets have been smashed. There are still some on the big ship, we... ”
“Are you stupid? There is still time to go to Avora to get the projectiles?”
“But, our...”
At this moment, Yevluo also hurriedly joined in: "We made a misjudgment. We didn't expect that the arrow consumption would be so large."
"Did you also run out of arrows?" Rurik asked.
"It's about to be used up. Even the spike-shaped iron bullets without tail fins."
Rurik finally became a little impatient. He stamped his feet vigorously, blaming himself for underestimating the enemy's fighting will. Ammunition reserves are running low.
Suddenly, looking at the small stones in the earth platform under his feet, he had a flash of inspiration.
"There are projectiles! There are projectiles everywhere here."
The tiny face Rurik squatted down was really puzzling.
He dug out a stone smaller than a ping-pong ball from the soil and threw it to the sailor on standby.
"Go! Find such stones from the ground, pile them in the trebuchet bag and launch them."
"Ah! This... Sir, with all due respect, such stones The stone can only hurt people, but it can't kill the enemy at all."
"It can hurt people! Thirty small stones in a leather bag can hurt thirty enemies. With his nose bruised and his face swollen, he no longer had the energy to continue fighting."
The sailor stopped talking and didn't want to understand the subtlety of the boss's decision.
As for the bull trebuchet, its original design intention is that anything that can be put in the leather bag can be thrown out.
This is on the seaside, and small stones can be seen everywhere mixed with the gravel. The leather pockets of each trebuchet are filled with these stones that lack lethality, but the operation of the ten trebuchets is to rain down bullets on the enemy.
The trebuchet fires shotgun shells! Targeting enemies 60 meters away, inflicts damage within a radius of approximately two meters.
Of course these stones could not kill anyone, but they gave the peasant soldiers behind the Northumbrian army a head-on blow.
Some people’s heads were smashed so hard that blood spurted out, and they even fainted because of stars in their eyes. Others had their noses broken, their faces scratched, and one eye was blinded. He was hit in the arms and chest, causing minor but painful internal bleeding. These farmers only had small makeshift shields made of wooden boards, and they did not even have any protective weapons.
Even denser than the thrown arrows is the array of shotgun blasts from the trebuchet! If they fire a salvo, the ten trebuchets will surely hit more than 400 stones the size of table tennis balls.
orAfter three rounds of shotgun strikes, the farmers in Northumbria fled backwards. They did not break away from the line, they just covered their wounded faces and arms and retreated out of the range of the trebuchets.
The farmers did not dare to retreat. They were afraid of being hacked to death by their own cavalry as traitors. But they withdrew from the line anyway, making defeat seem inevitable to the warriors who were fighting to kill in the face of extremely anxious risks. Many people have died, but the sea barbarian front is still as hard as a stone wall. Strength advantage? Those farmers have escaped! The brothers have consumed a lot of energy and if they continue to stay here, they will only end up exhausted and killed by the enemy!
The farmer's action of dodging the shotgun caused a chain reaction beyond Rurik's expectation. He was excited to see the enemy's orange infantry. Those sharp and tenacious men finally couldn't stand it anymore and began to flee.
"They are running away! The enemy is running away!" Rurik shouted immediately, and then asked everyone standing on the high ground to shout that the enemy was fleeing.
The morale of the Balmok Viking warriors, who also persisted in fighting and felt extremely anxious about this battle, was greatly boosted, and they all let out thunderous Viking war cries.
King Eynred in the distance, what exactly happened to this man who was so far away that he could not see clearly, but the scene of failure was already highlighted.
Although the kingdom’s war horses are very precious, so are the cavalry. But if his two thousand troops were defeated here, his reputation would be damaged, and the strength of the kingdom would also be damaged.
At this point, a decision that he had rejected now seemed to be implemented by force at the critical juncture.
Perhaps, that is the only way to save the war situation that is one step away from collapse.
Eynred suddenly shouted: "Aston!"
"Here you are!"
"Obey the order! Order all cavalry!"
The king's eyes showed resoluteness, and his eyes showed it. Aston was overjoyed: "I will rectify the cavalry now."